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...years Ellroy wandered L.A., living with friends and in parks, nearly continuously drunk and high from ingesting the cotton soaked wads of Benzedrex inhalers and drinking alcohol and cough syrup. He broke into women’s homes and stole their panties. He worked at a store called Porno Villa and afterwards would “drink [himself] into oblivion,” over his loneliness...
Ellroy said he fantasized and longed for women but admitted, “I was the acquired taste that nobody ever acquired.” He upped the drinking and the Benzedrex until a doctor told him that if he continued he would be gone in a week’s time. Destination: Morgue! is not only the title of Ellroy’s latest work; it was also the conceivable future of the author when he was only 28 years...
...slack on the cultural lag has pulled tight for those two schools; and while they glimpse the development of political activism on their campuses, their students are trying out the tragi-comic scene of dropping, blowing, and shooting pot, acid, hash, speed, belladonna, sunflower seeds, airplane glue, freon, Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, Paragoric Pall Malls, Romilar, and Dr. Schein's Asmador Powder...
...infirmary to a doctor on the condiiton that the administration not be told. In a prep school community of about a thousand where everyone talks about everyone else, this was risky. The administration found out and in the room searches that followed, faculty members found a number of Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, that had been chewed, in a student's wastebasket...
That was Exeter's first big bust. Randy Smith, a writer for the student newspaper, The Exonian, tipped off U.P.I. for whom he was a stringer. U.P.I. found out independently that Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's son was involved in the Benzedrex Inhalers. The deans got angry at Smith because he hadn't checked out the story with them. Next year in an interview for his college application a dean told him to "keep clean...
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